Lychas marmoreus

2 Little Marbled Scorpion at Stromlo, ACT

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Identification history

Lychas marmoreus	26 Nov 2021	MichaelMulvaney
Lychas variatus	26 Nov 2021	MichaelMulvaney
Lychas variatus	23 Nov 2021	trevorpreston

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Scorpion 12-15mm

3 comments

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

26 Nov 2021

A first for CNM

trevorpreston wrote:

26 Nov 2021

How odd, it was only an accident I put this in as variatus, I thought I put it as mamoreus. Can you tell me the main differences between the two?

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

26 Nov 2021

I thought that variatus had a light body with brown marking and mamoreus was a dark body with light spots, but your question made melon more closely. This paper shows the differences in leg, nippers and sting
http://kovarex.com/scorpio/pdf/2019m-Lychas_Mesobuthus.pdf.
Sorry your claim to local scorpion fame was so short-lived and down to a mis-identification by me.

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1 Abundance
23 Nov 2021 04:12 PM Recorded on
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12mm to 25mm Animal size

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Lychas marmoreus Scientific name
Little Marbled Scorpion Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-Invasive
Up to 820.19m Recorded at altitude
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